LOCUST ON CONCORD FAIRHAVEN

An Original Oil Painting executed en plein air by Fine Artist Jeremiah Jolliff

Spring is an excellent time to get out there and do en plein air painting. It is one of the best seasons because the weather is warming up and there is a riot of color available for the plein air artist to make a fine piece of original art. The trees are not yet loaded with leaves so one can practice painting trees and their manifold branches. The fields are vibrating with an extremely vivid green and the early blooms of wild flowers are in nature’s terrific bouquets and the farmers have begun to overturn the rich clods of earth into rhythmic rows.

The day’s weather was characterized by low strato-cumulus and higher alto-cumulus. It was an enjoyable day to be painting outside with a breeze and fair temperatures. It was very pleasant to be painting the budding Locust trees. During the spring the Black Locust trees have the most marvelous raceme tufts of flowers that have the most exquisite fragrance of honey and oranges. Every so often the wafting pleasure was brought to me on the spring zephyr.